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Laszlo Pinter has over two decades of experience working on sustainable development at the global scene. His main research interests include sustainable development governance and strategies, measuring and integrated reporting on progress, and integrated outlooks, scenarios and transition pathways, often focused on the natural resources sectors. He currently carries out research focused on the post-2015 development agenda and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), with emphasis on the mechanisms of goal selection, monitoring and review, and means of implementation. He also carries out research on integrated vulnerability and adaptation. He contributed to the Global Environment Outlook since GEO-1 and served as Coordinating Lead Author of GEO-5's scenario chapter, most recently serving as CLA of the outlook chapter of the European assessment of GEO-6. Between 2012 and 2015 he was lead author of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)'s series of reports on the SDGs in 14 countries in European region and Asia. He is work package leader in the NATURVATION project focused on nature based solutions in cities and supported by the EU's Horizon 2020 program. He also serves as a case study leader in the IMPRESSIONS FP-7 project focused on adaptation to high-end climate scenarios and recently completed research on the climate risk assessment of large scale hydraulic infrastructure investment scenarios of the World Bank for the Okavango basin, in collaboration with CRIDF.

He works worldwide and over his career collaborated with a wide range of major organizations such as the World Bank, the OECD, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO, the Asia-Europe Foundation, various Directorates of the the European Commission, the GEF, and the China Council, and also with many Canadian organizations including Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Environment Canada, the National Roundtable for the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE), the Canadian Index of Well-Being, CIDA, IDRC, provincial governments, various consulting firms and others. While often working globally, he strongly belives in the power and importance of local initiatives and research where the concepts and theories of sustainability appear with a human face, tangibility and often urgency.

Prior to joining CEU in 2010, he worked for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Canada between 1994 and 2010, serving as the director of the Measurement and Assessment Program between 2003 and 2010. During 2000-2001 he was Practitioner Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, conducting research related to the effectiveness of integrated environmental assessment and reporting at the global level. Besides his position at CEU, he is also Senior Fellow at IISD and was granted the title of Honorary Professor by Pannon University in Hungary.

2013-present - Navigating Sustainable Development for the 21st Century: Governance ‘of’ and ‘for’ the post-2015 development agenda. (Tokyo Institute of Technology, chapter lead author on ‘political economy of measurement’)

2005-2007 - Performance measurement for local government in China. (Task Force on Economic Growth and the Environment, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. (CCICED; member of Task Force)